1787 Parlement of Paris demands summoning of Estates General

1788 Parlement of Paris presents list of grievances; Louis XVI decides to call State-General for May 1789 and recalls Jacques Necker as minister of  finance
Bread riots in France

1789 The French Revolution: States-General meet at Versailles; Third Estate declares itself the National Assembly, decides not to part until constitution is drawn up; Mirabeau as a national figure;the Three Estates unite; the king dismisses Necker; Paris mobs storm the Bastille; Lafayette becomes commander of the National Guard; abolition of France's feudal system Declaration of the Rights of Man; the king and court move from Versailles to Paris; Fr. royalists begin to emigrate National Assembly decides on nationalization of church property, forbids any member to accept office under Louis XVI; issue of assignats (paper money) in France

1790 Festival of Champ de Mars, Paris; Louis XVI accepts the constitution
Edmund Burke- Reflections on the Revolution in France

1791 Mirabeau elected president of Fr. assembly Died (b. 1749)
Louis XVI trying to leave Fr. with his family is caught in Verannes and returned to Paris
Massacre of the Champ de Mars, Paris
Fr. National Assembly dissolves
Thomas Paine - The Rights of Man part I in defense of the Fr. Revolution

1792 The Girondists Form ministry in Fr. ; the mob invades Tuileries; the Revolutionary Commune established. Legislative Assembly suspended; the royal family imprisoned; Sept. 22 Fr. Republic proclaimed; revolutionary calender comes into force; Jacobins under Danton seize power; trial of Louis XVI; first Guillotine in Paris France declares war on Austria, Prussia, and Sardinia; Fr. troops cross Rhine, take Brussels and conquer Austrian Nether.

1793 Louis XVI executed
Committee of Public Safety established. in Fr. with Danton as its head
Reign of Terror begins
Marat murdered by Charlotte Corday
Robespierre And St. Just join the Committee of Public Safety
Roman Catholicism banned in Fr.
Queen Marie Antoinette executed
Egalite, Duke of Orleans executed
Napoleon takes Toulon
First Coalition against Fr. formed
Holy Roman Empire declares war on Fr.

1794 Danton and Desmoulins executed, followed by mass executions
"Feast of the Supreme Being" in Paris
The Commune of Paris abolished
Robespierre and St. Just executed
Jacobin club closed
Lavoisier, Fr. chemist executed

1795 Bread riots and White Terror in Paris
Third Fr. constitution enacted, power in Directory

1796 Napoleon marries Josephine de Beauharnais assumes command in Italy
Francois Babeuf- plot to restore constitution of 1793
General Moreau crosses the Rhine

1797 Preliminary Peace Treaty between Austria and France signed at Leoban
Napoleon declares Venetian constitution
Peace of Campo Formio between France And Austria
Napoleon appointed to command forces for the invasion of Eng. arrives in Fr.
Paul Barras prevents royalist reaction in coup d' etat of 18 Fructidor

Source: Orange High School AP History